Colors that go with

Light periwinkle

#C5CBE1

Or pick a different color

Open on color wheel →

Light periwinkle (#C5CBE1) is a light cool shade that appears across 19 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Clarence Gagnon, Uemura Shoen, and Claude Monet and the Impressionism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Bone (#E3DAC9), Khaki (#C3B091), and Shadow (#8A795D). The combination forms an airy, hazy chord, built on a complementary hue split, leans on warm companions to lift a cool source color, with the pair colors held at a similar value to the source.

Artworks Featuring This Color

September palette card
September
T. C. Steele · 1892
Forest palette card
Forest
Henri Martin · 1895
The Meuse near Dordrecht palette card
The Meuse near Dordrecht
Maximilien Luce · 1908
Flowers in a Glass palette card
Flowers in a Glass
Henri-Edmond Cross · 1904
Springtime palette card
Springtime
Alfred Sisley · 1889
A Mountain Stream, Tyrol palette card
A Mountain Stream, Tyrol
John Singer Sargent · 1914

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Light periwinkle

6 palettes where Light periwinkle appears prominently — one per artist.

Uemura Shoen Palette 4 - Silvery Nimbus

Uemura Shoen

30.5% Light periwinkle

Nihonga Palette 1 - Silvery Nimbus

Nihonga

30.5% Light periwinkle

bijinga Palette 2 - Silvery Nimbus

bijinga

30.5% Light periwinkle

Claude Monet Palette 3 - Effulgent Haze

Claude Monet

24.1% Light periwinkle

John Henry Twachtman Palette 4 - Celestial Alabaster

John Henry Twachtman

23.9% Light periwinkle

François-Joseph Navez Palette 1 - Dimmed Stone

François-Joseph Navez

23.6% Light periwinkle

Choose another color